Congress Chair

PROF. DR. JOSEPH ALCALAY
Director of Mohs Surgery Unit
Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv

Professor Joseph Alcalay, MD. Born 1955, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Medical studies at Tel-Aviv University, Sackler School of medicine. MD degree with Magna cum laude. Dermatology residency in Beilinson Medical Center. Three years fellowship in Mohs Surgery and Immunology, Department of Dermatology, Baylor College of Medicine and Department of Immunology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.

Private practice and director of Mohs Surgery Unit, Assuta Medical Center, Tel-Aviv. Founder and Past president of the Israel Society of Dermatologic Surgery, past president of the Israel Society of Dermatology and Venereology. Past president of the International Society of Dermatologic Surgery. Congress president of the World Congress of Cancers of the Skin, Tel Aviv 2009. Past secretary of the European Society for Micrographic Surgery. Member of the  American Academy of Dermatology and the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. Program director of the American College of Mohs Surgery. International advisory board of the Skin Cancer Foundation. Author of the chapter “Mohs Micrographic Surgery” in Fitzpatrick’s textbook of dermatology in general medicine, 2013. Reviewer for dermatologic surgery and archives of dermatology. Author of 100 publications.